National retailers coming to new Katy shopping center

Developers are starting construction on a shopping center in Katy that will include 450,000 square feet housing such tenants as Bed, Bath and Beyond, BuyBuy Baby, DSW, Kirkland’s, and DXL, according to an announcement Monday.

The center, to be called The Shoppes at Parkwest | Katy, will be built on a 40-acre site at the northeast quadrant of Interstate 10 and Katy Fort Bend Road, a half mile west of the Grand Parkway and catty-corner from Katy Mills Mall.

The Retail Connection, its development arm Connected Development Services, and Medistar Corp. announced the project, which is being designed by Johnson Architects of Dallas and constructed by EMJ Construction is the general contractor. Bank of the Ozarks is providing financing.

Medistar, primarily a hospital developer, owns 150 acres at the site, which has been branded Parkwest.

The project is in a high demand area with more than 120,000 vehicles passing by per day, the developers said. More than 200,000 residents live and work within a 5-mile radius of the site.

“The tremendous access granted by the new Grand Parkway has significantly changed the traffic patterns in Katy, and have allowed this location to become a major retail hub for the entire trade area,” David Stukalin, president of The Retail Connection’s Houston office, said in the announcement.

The companies said another 150,000 square feet of leases are in negotiations.